From the moment we dropped the needle on side one, we were impressed by the presence, the clarity, and the energy -- and that's just talking about the sound of the audience.

Turn it up loud and you are in the middle of the Stones' concert of a lifetime. I'm sure I don't have to tell you what kind of money Stones' tickets go for these days, but I think it's safe to say you'll get better sound for your dollar on this Hot Stamper LP.

Great Music, Great Mastering

The sound here is excellent, but more importantly, the mastering is exactly what it needs to be: honest. As you're listening to this album, you feel as though you're hearing The Stones the way they wanted to be heard. There's no sense of any "manipulation" in the sound of this record.

Our hats are off once again to Mr. Glyn Johns, who produced, engineered, and mixed this album superbly. The vocals are natural with amazing texture, the bass is tight and punchy, and the guitars are energetic and Tubey Magical with clear transients. The overall sound is clean, clear, and transparent with real depth to the soundfield.

This is also one of the top live rock albums ever. Sympathy For The Devil, Midnight Rambler, and Honky Tonk Woman are MAGICAL. Rock and roll doesn't get much more fun than this.

Vinyl Condition

Mint Minus Minus and maybe a bit better is about as quiet as any vintage pressing will play, and since only the right vintage pressings have any hope of sounding good on this album, that will most often be the playing condition of the copies we sell. (The copies that are even a bit noisier get listed on the site are seriously reduced prices or traded back in to the local record stores we shop at.)

Those of you looking for quiet vinyl will have to settle for the sound of later pressings and Heavy Vinyl reissues, purchased elsewhere of course as we have no interest in selling records that don't have the vintage analog magic of these wonderful originals.

If you want to make the trade-off between bad sound and quiet surfaces with whatever Heavy Vinyl pressing might be available, well, that's certainly your prerogative, but we can't imagine losing what's good about this music -- the size, the energy, the presence, the clarity, the weight -- just to hear it with less background noise.

Recorded during their American tour in late 1969, and centered around live versions of material from the Beggars Banquet-Let It Bleed era... Often acclaimed as one of the top live rock albums of all time...